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Handel in the Wind: Messiah and Other Masterworks

By Red Priest

Label: Red Priest Recordings
Released: 2019
Track listing: Suites from Messiah: Overture; Comfort Ye, Ev’ry Valley; Shepherds and Angels; Eternal Source of Light; Jaws of Darkness; Lost with Blindness; Jaws Return; The Recorder Shall Sound; Despised and Rejected; Siciliano Pedicuro; The Raging Nations; Breaking the Bonds; The Potter’s Vessel; Hallelujah; Rinaldo: Lascio Ch’lo Pianga; Trio Sonata in F Major, Op. 2 No. 4: I Largetto; II Vivace; III Adagio; Alla Breve; Allegro; Keyboard Suite in E: The Harmonious Blacksmith; Concerto Grosso, Op. 3 No. 2; Largo; Keyboard Suite in G Minor: Passacaglia; Zadok the Red Priest; Trio Sonata, Op. 2 No. 1: Aria Amorosa.

Red Priest: Handel in the Wind: Messiah and Other Masterworks

by C. Michael Bailey
November 10, 2019

This particular performance of Messiah deserves its own seperate review, in addition to Handel's Messiah 2019. Red Priest, a Baroque specialty quartet named for that most famous Italian ginger of the period, Antonio Vivaldi, has been called: “visionary and heretical," “outrageous yet compulsive," “wholly irreverent and highly enlightened," and “completely wild and deeply imaginative." These expert ...

Red Priest's Vivaldi: The 4 Seasons

By Red Priest

Label: Dorian Recordings
Released: 2004
Track listing: Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons--Concerto In E Major, Opus 8, No. 1, La Primavera; Concerto In G Minor, L'Estate; Opus 8, No. 2, Concerto In F Major, Opus 8, No. 3, L'Autumno; Concerto In F Minor, Opus 8, No. 2, L'Inverno; Archangelo Corelli: Concerto Gross In G Minor, Opus 6, No. 8, The Christmas Concerto.

Red Priest: Red Priest's Vivaldi: The 4 Seasons

by C. Michael Bailey
August 1, 2004

Red Priest is a group of very intelligent period instrument specialists with a red-hot wicked sense of humor.? After the release of the group's two previous recordings, Priest on the Run and Nightmare in Venice , the group went on tour with what was touted as their highly controversial interpretation of Vivaldi's first four ...

Priest on the Run

By Red Priest

Label: Dorian Recordings
Released: 2003
Track listing: Sonata Terza (Dario Castello); Two Spanish Dances (Diego Ortiz); Gypsy Sonata (Georg Phillip Telemann); Cancion Del Emperador (Luis De Narvaez); Renaissance Revels (Anonymous); The Cuckoo Sonata (Johann Heinrich Smelzer); La Bergamasca (Marco Uccellini); Two In One Upon A Ground (Henry Purcell); Aria Amorosa (George Frederic Handel); Fantasia For Violin De Gamba (Telemann); Zefiro

Nightmare in Venice

By Red Priest

Label: Dorian Recordings
Released: 2003
Track listing: The Nightmare Concerto ["La Notte"] in G Minor RV 439 (Antonio Vivaldi); English Fantasy Suite (Robert Johnson/Nicholas Lestrange); Sonata A Tre In A Minor (Giovanni Paola Cima); Concerto Grosso In A Minor, RV 522 (Antonio Vivaldi); Suite From The Fairy Queen (Henry Purcell); Sonata Decima (Dario Castello); Suite Form Scylla Et Glaucus (Jean-Marie Leclair).

Red Priest: Priest on the Run

by C. Michael Bailey
October 10, 2003

Classical Music With Sense Of Humor Part I The peculiar name adopted by this quartet of very talented baroque performance specialists derives from the moniker assigned the famous Italian Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi (of The Four Seasons fame) because of his flaming red hair. The repertoire was chosen with a wink and is loosely based on ...

Red Priest: Nightmare in Venice

by C. Michael Bailey
May 16, 2003

Classical Music With A Sense Of Humor, Part II Priest on the Run was the Baroque quartet Red Priest's first recording for Dorian, released in the late 1990s. It was a thematic affair based on Antonio Vivaldi's flight from Venice at the time the composer was going abroad, assembled from the ...

Red Priest: Priest on the Run

by C. Michael Bailey
May 13, 2003

Classical Music With Sense Of Humor, Part I Red Priest, a quartet of very talented Baroque performance specialists, derives its name from the moniker assigned the famous Italian Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi (of Four Seasons fame) because of his flaming red hair. The repertoire was chosen with a wink and loosely based on Vivaldi being run ...